Anatomicallymodernhumans may have settled Australia before they settled western Europe.
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The blue arrows trace major migration routes of anatomicallymodernhumans out of Africa.
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In their place came anatomicallymodernhumans, who evolved in Africa and are the ancestors of everyone alive today.
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This probably indicates that the Denisovans interbred with anatomicallymodernhumans despite the split between our lineages over a million years ago.
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Anatomicallymodernhumans -those that resemble people alive today -evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago.
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Debates around the origins of anatomicallymodernhumans and the modernity of their behaviour are crucial to understanding the history of all modern people.
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How they died out, and why, and to what extent they may have interbred with anatomicallymodernhumans, is an ongoing source of debate.